Battle of Muirancourt

The Battle of Muirancourt (21 November 2015) was a battle of World War I between the United Kingdom and the German Empire. The British won a short skirmish against the Germans, taking over the area of Muirancourt.

History
The German army of Crown Prince Rupprecht and the British Expeditionary Force army of Douglas Haig were engaged in stalemate on the Western Front, with the battle lines moving, at most, 5 miles over the course of the war. In 1917, repeated offensives gained negligible amounts of ground, and heavy casualties occurred on both sides. In November of 1917, the British had a skirmish with the Imperial German Army at Muirancourt, fighting over five trenches and four barbed wire fences.

The British first deployed Lewis machine-gunners to the trenches, and they then dispatched assault teams and riflemen to the front lines. The Germans and British fought a hard battle at the fourth and fifth trenches, with the Germans first using mustard gas to bomb the British trench. However, the British responded by unleashing all of their artillery units upon the Germans, and they also fired poison gas at the Germans. After the gas attack ended, the British units advanced to the end of the battlefield, claiming victory and routing the Germans.